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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does M'Vy say Dab is in when she calls Tree at home?

2. Where does Tree find herself when she goes to see Brother Rush?

3. How does the narrator say M'Vy feels when she takes care of Dab?

4. What does M'Vy apologize to Tree for?

5. What does Tree say Brother Rush's hands are full of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree learn when she sees Brother Rush after Dab's death?

2. How does the narrator describe the relationship between M'Vy and Dab?

3. What are Tree's feelings about Dab's sickness?

4. What ails Brother Rush?

5. What happens that Dab gets taken to the hospital?

6. What happens when Miss Pricherd cleans Dab's room?

7. Describe Tree's discovery of Dab's death.

8. Describe Dab's admittance into the hospital.

9. Why does Tree get upset when M'Vy says that it is time to go out?

10. How is the relationship with Tree and Miss Pricherd different at the end of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

M'Vy tells Tree that she had not told her much about her family because she wanted to keep a closed fist to beat fate. Does Tree try to beat fate, or how does she try to deal with fate's effect on her life? Who else has techniques for dealing with fate? How successful do these other techniques seem to be?

Essay Topic 2

How does Tree change from the beginning of the book to the end? What has she learned, and how has she grown? How has her relationship with her mother changed?

Essay Topic 3

Do you think Tree will continue to go back into the past -- and into her own childhood -- from the little room? Or was her trip back into the past just part of her growing up and becoming the person she is in the present?

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